Q1: Lesson 3 | Music Of The Renaissance Period

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It covers the period from 1450-1600. It marks the transition from medieval to modern history.

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Renaissance period

Question 2

Considered as the most progressive form of composition. Non religious music and were usually love songs

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Madrigal

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It means many voices

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Polyphony

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Single melody with blocks of chords

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Homophony

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Consisted of a piece of plain song and two or more additional parts, each with different words

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Motets

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Voices repeat the same melody

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Canon

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A secular melodic line that ran through the work like a needle

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Cantus Firmus

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Light madrigal also known as casonetta which was a dance song often with a phrase of nonsense syllables

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Barletto

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An early form of the fugue, somewhat similar to a motet but is instrumental

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Ricercari

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Known was the Prince of Music who was called “Palestrina”.

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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

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A central figure in the Burgundian school

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Guillaume Du Fay

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He was a famous Renaissance composer of secular music in England

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Thomas Marley

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A choirmaker in St. Mark Cathedral in Venice

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Claudio Monteverdi

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German professor of theology. Was ordained to the priesthood in 1507

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Martin Luther

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He was a French theologician in Geneva during the protestant reformation

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John Calvin